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The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Japan’s Global Baroque, 1550–1650, on view in the Jane and Richard Levin Study Gallery from February 23 through May 21, 2018. This focused exhibition explores the influence of global trade on the development of a new visual aesthetic in Japan that featured bold patterns and bright colors, and which paralleled the emergence of the Baroque style in Europe. Drawn from the Gallery’s collection and supplemented by important loans from both public and private collections, the objects on view illustrate the critical role that …